I'm sure we were all saddened by the sudden shock departure of BBC climate comedian Richard Black.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19422041

I think his unbiased and entertaining reports will be missed by all. Would it be rude to speculate if he was encouraged to go and play the activist elsewhere after the Heartland debacle. If you remember, he was a tad too keen to publish the scandal that a sceptical lobby group was planning to er. lobby from a sceptical viewpoint with a huge budget of THOUSANDS and ended up with egg on his face after it emerged that the warmist Peter Gleick had seemingly committed a federal crime to obtain some documents using a false identity and had even allegedly forged a further paper.

Here was his hilarious first report and oh boy did he get slaughtered in the comments :)

"While Europe was asleep, someone mailed a bunch of internal Heartland Institute documents to a number of bloggers including desmogblog and ThinkProgress - these two and others have since posted the documents online."

Well there isn't an advert for a vacancy on the BBC careers site yet, so could it be they've already selected the new warmist, who as I type is probably 'warming up' to take over the crumbling empire that Dick leaves behind?